Comments on: Life Insights from 2009 I’m taking into 2010

By: shawna

shawna — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:30:49 +0000

Wow! Thank you for chiming in with you comments everyone! I really appreciate it.

It looks like we need to get a book proposal support and accountability group going! I’d be game.

@Lydia you’re absolutely right on the perfection thing. That is my biggest stumbling block and reason for my procrastination. I need to work on it, and you’re right: feedback is what counts and just getting it written already!

@heather & @cari, I will shoot emails about working together and encouraging each other on our books/book proposals. (Anyone else want in email me: shawna (at) shawnaatteberry (dot) com.)

@Joyce & @Star, it really is amazing how hard self-care is. You’d think it would be one of the most natural things in the world, but it’s not.

Thank you everyone for stopping by. Here’s to getting books/book proposals done this year and learning how to take better care of ourselves!

By: Lydia, Clueless Crafterq

Lydia, Clueless Crafterq — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:38:43 +0000

Shawna, I’m so glad you stopped by and left a piece of you behind. It led me back to you, which is a New Year’s gift.

I really want to work on not doing 2,002 thing before allowing a moment of self nurturing into my orbit. Let’s do that together.

Now, your book burden is akin to the pain I went through with my graduate thesis. I have a feeling that you won’t submit anything that isn’t perfect? Part of writing as the Clueless Crafter was to allow failure to play on the same stage as success in my life. One is not exclusive of the other; they are on in the same.

When I realize that I’m never going to be satisfied with something, I go ahead and submit it anyway. If it’s rejected, I have feedback. It’s what you do with the feedback that counts, right?

By: Star

Star — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:26:19 +0000

I am not sure why self care is so hard for women, but it is something I definitely struggle with. I feel I have to “earn” it and yet there is no way I will ever consider myself as having earned it. I know it is important, but there never seems to be time! Wonderful insight!

By: Joyce

Joyce — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:49:41 +0000

Love #3 Such a simple concept, but hard to do at times…and I’m such a people pleaser, so that doesn’t help.

Good luck with everything! Happy new year!

By: cari

cari — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 02:18:03 +0000

I am with you in the “finish the book already” ring. I am four chapters into two at this point and struggling with the push to cross the finish line.

I love your list!

By: Heather Plett

Heather Plett — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:46:13 +0000

We could be “book proposal buddies”! I’ve been working on one book proposal or another for about 5 years now.

By: shawna

shawna — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:10:14 +0000

We do need to talk! I’ll shoot you an email.

By: Ronna Detrick

Ronna Detrick — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:55:18 +0000

OK. We totally have to talk. Your book proposal is in amazingly close alignment with my own…m own “write the damn book already” proclamations! I’d love to hear more of your thoughts…and more about what the procrastination has been about. I have a hunch – given my own experience of such. Truly…I’d love to talk! And yes, write the book – whether this one or not!!! Happy New Year!

Oh, and thanks so much for linking to me! ‘Love this ongoing reciprocity! It’s lovely and powerful and full of amazing community!!